Sent him ‘flying’
Hello, everyone,
In “The drunk driver struck the pedestrian in the crosswalk and sent him flying.” I‘m very curious to know the grammatical function of ’flying’ especially.
For this pattern - ‘send someone/something flying’ I parse as follows;
1. ‘flying’ is the complement for the object ‘him’.
2. the verb - ‘send’ might act similarly as ‘get’ in the pattern - ‘get something -ing’ (=make somebody/something start -ing, as in “Sadly we can't get the clock going”, where this ‘get’ is a causative verb).
3. then, I paraphrase the original sentence, “sent him flying.” into “made him start flying through the air and onto the ground” or “caused him to be in the process of flying through the air and onto the ground”.
Would really appreciate, if you kindly correct my assumption.
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” I‘m very curious to know the grammatical function of ’ flying ’ especially. For this pattern - ‘ send someone/something flying ’ I parse as follows; 1. ‘flying’ is the complement for the object ‘him’.
- ” I‘m very curious to know the grammatical function of ’ flying ’ especially.
- For this pattern - ‘ send someone/something flying ’ I parse as follows; 1.
- ‘flying’ is the complement for the object ‘him’.
- 2.
- the verb - ‘send’ might act similarly as ‘get’ in the pattern - ‘get something -ing’ (=make somebody/something start -ing, as in “ Sadly we can't get the clock going ”, where this ‘get’ is a causative verb).
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deepcosmosHello, everyone,
In “The drunk driver struck the pedestrian in the crosswalk and sent him flying.” I‘m very curious to know the grammatical function of ’flying’ especially.
For this pattern - ‘send someone/something flying’ I parse as follows;
1. ‘flying’ is the complement for the object ‘him’.
2. the
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